I'm going to give you a simplified version. If you can't understand it, I'm afraid I can't help you. (But I have faith you can.)
...The TOU say you can't
* Use Silicon Investor for illegal purposes or for the transmission of material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, tortuous, improper or otherwise objectionable. *
It is unrealistic to expect SI to hire staff adequate to the task of excavating dozens of contentious posts in each of many contentious situations in which dueling parties are, perhaps, as one example, invading (or threatening to) each other's privacy; and after gathering a perhaps lengthy history, to analyze these posts consecutively to determine which of the two members has abused or threatened or harmed or been "otherwise objectionable" toward the other... or which did it first...or which did it more.
Anyone who has administered a large program (well) knows there are always myriad methods and strategies for bringing about harmony that aren't spelled out in the manual and are more practical and sensible than attempting hopelessly to get to the very bottom of every incident of friction and ejecting the party adjudged the miscreant under the TOU ie ejecting in each feud at least one party, after the paid judges have pored over the historical posts and determined which one first, for example, harassed... violated the other's privacy...threatened, behaved improperly or otherwise objectionably (all of which behaviors are violations of the TOU)...
In other words, what is spelled out in the TOU are prohibited behaviors.
It's up to SI how they minimize these behaviors on their site.
One practicable and effective way, a way that has minimized harassment, tortuous behavior, improper behavior, violations of privacy, etc, devised by administration here, has been to separate warring parties.
This failed to work when an attorney named Jones threatened to sue if they stopped him from posting to a certain uwilling female named Smith. |
